buny wrote:
TheVileOne wrote:
There is no issue with Half time. If a song is so difficult, people need to use half time to pass it, it's too difficult. osu! is meant to be played by everyone, not 20 10 gifted people. The issue is not with Half time but the map itself. It's not suitably playable without mods.
osu is meant to be played by everyone, that's why we have easier maps.
Competitiveness isn't for everyone, but it is for a lot of people hence why we have harder and harder maps.
Yet a few of those same people choose half-time over real-time because they are more concerned with their stats than they are with showing that they can play a difficult map.
I have mixed feelings on this one, because for some people, they might find the map fun in HT, for others it's rankwhoring. And changing it will affect somebody in a negative way. Beating someone's top40 score with HT also shows how both players can't play the map at normal speed too.
I've actually voted "it's fine as it is" even though it's really not, but finding a solution for all is an ever harder challenge. I have no Half-Time scores, and never use it, but I don't support unranking HT completely either. The multiplier is fine too.
The real issue is simple... players do not want to see Half-Time scores overtaking their scores and taking up the top40 and replay slots of people who played very difficult maps at normal speed. But this doesn't justify removal of HT, because both players can't FC the map normally. I also don't enjoy watching Half-Time replays.
So there is one simple solution... set a max achievable rank with HT... Like #41? And grant 0 pp.
This is a thumb-sucked solution, so I am not in anyway implying that my solution is better. It's just something to think about.
EDIT: About rank filtering according to mod, we still have the "viewable replays" issue, I want to see the non-HT replays. So that could work, so long as scores with difficulty reduction are saved as a separate set of 40 replays. And then another set of 40 replays are saved without difficulty reduction. Then the filtering would make more sense.